Lucky Dip

2025-05-22

David Starkey, historian, constitutional expert, and eloquent champion of the native English.

Here he discusses whether there is any substance at all underpinning Starmer's ever mutating rhetoric, and analyses how his superficiality has alienated almost everybody in the country.

(63 minutes)

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2025-05-22

The EU has been flirting with nuclear power for years - but mighty Germany has been determinedly anti nuclear ever since the tsunami washed into Fukushima.

But since the Putin-Trump telephone call it seems that it has begun to dawn, even on German politicians, that the Dunkelflaute may not have what it takes to resurrect German industry in recreating the necessary armaments industries to face up to the challenge from the East.

All of which is a welcome if unexpected outbreak of good sense (even if for all the wrong reasons) since if both Germany and France support nuclear then that's probably enough to sway the rest of the EU block.

And it leaves Ed Milliband in an even

2025-05-22

Redacted presents a commendably short review of the economics & politics around Ukraine, sanctions, and economies.

Oh, and the Putin-Trump telephone call...

"... they are afraid that if the war ends, the entire fake economy they've built will collapse... "

Oh yes, the chickens are flocking home in droves (to mix my metaphors)... and it's serious.

(9 minutes + "message from his sponsor")

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2025-05-19

Let's be clear - this article is no prophecy, but it does set out some possibilities that may materialise in the coming months and years.

Firstly, Trump's recent extraordinary welcomes in the Arab states are fairly obviously not without significance - but whether that significance will be permanent or temporary is yet to become clear. Maybe it is to re-establish a "Petrodollar II" system of global trade advantageous to the US, or an AI-based system of world currency controlsdevised to benefit those who design it, or both, or something else, we don't know, but something is certainly afoot!

The other major show on Earth is the BRICS grouping, which seems to be methodically plotting a course toward a multi-polar world where independent countries plan

2025-05-16

So what exactly is Trump up to in Arabia?

They seem to be surprisingly Trumpish toward him if you ask me.

And I don't think it's simply because the size of his ego impresses them...

Investor's Daily (PKA "Fortune and Freedom" - this is not financial advice!) has a suggestion that perhaps makes much more sense...

2025-05-12

"The Donald" is no stranger to bucking "received opinion", and his tariffs agenda would seem to confirm that he doesn't intend to change any time soon.

Global economics is a complex topic with many interlocking factors that taken together are difficult to unravel, but it does seem that many countries are "making the deal".

Nevertheless, when a number of economists gather to discuss such matters, it's a reasonable bet that the number of theories of economic behaviour may well exceed the number of economists in attendance. 

This isn't really a surprise when one notes that economics is entirely dependent upon an understanding of human behaviours, and to understand those we must also understand human motivations. Not to mention politics... religion... history... need I go on?

2025-05-10

Investor's Daily (previously Fortune and Freedom) isn't your standard financial rag - it has articles which relate to real life - after all, isn't economics just a particular aspect of real life? And if we cannot understand real life, then how can we understand the economics?

So today they bring us a thought to make us think, to put the ball in our court, to make us react. And in the nicest possible way, I think they are right.

We all need to get proactive rather than reactive. 

It's the very best way to learn.

2025-05-08

Martin Geddes offers his AI's take on 5th generation warfare (all very peculiar).

We are well into Orwellian territory now. It is the war against mind-control, the war against unthinking compliance, against habitual deference to those who assert authority, and against the worldview within which we grew up (and into which we were indoctrinated).

Everyone is on this battlefield whether or not we realise it. 

Only those of us prepared to think the unthinkable will survive it.

Everything we have been told is up for challenge and rethinking, individual by individual.

Nobody can rethink everything, but understanding the necessity, and making a start, will likely be enough.

Make of it what you will

2025-05-07

As something of a relic from my ever receding past as an "IT professional", I still get communications from my erstwhile professional body, since I haven't found a good reason for cutting off my membership subscription.

It's communications can be educational, given that it has "transformed" itself in some ways since I was permitted membership, and not all to the good in my jaundiced curmudgeonly view.

Sometimes transformation can be for the good, and sometimes for the modish but ephemeral fashion of the day (Good Lord, give me the wisdom to differentiate them!). In my old-fashioned viewpoint (which I still see few reasonable grounds to modify), a leading professional body should primarily devote itself to the well-being of the profession, the advancement of its technical and scientific knowledge base, and the education of its practitioners, of the public in general (and of the government in particular) with regard to the contribution that the profession can

Fascism

2025-05-06

The new Mark Carney, new prime minister of "independent" Canada, has invited the head of state of his colonial power to open his new Parliament.

Redacted investigates...

(13 minutes)

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2025-05-03

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is a man who was famously excommunicated by the Pope for outspoken criticism of the Vatican.

Some might say that he, much like Jesus, does not hesitate to call out the fake 'Vicars of Christ' wherever he finds them. 

Sadly, I suppose that being excommunicated, he cannot be in the running for the now vacant

2025-05-01

The British Military are now hopefully being stirred into action on behalf of the people.

"In  the event of a belligerent occupation by a tyrannical government the military can step in and must step in to defend its people"  Law of War Manual 11.3

Now where did I hear that already ..?

(18 minutes)

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2025-04-30

Clif introduces a raft of unfamiliar ideas that will confuse the unprepared, but stick with it and and you may begin to understand that the world we experience has hidden depths, that are important to making sense of both world history and present times.

"We must experience the worst that the Khazarian Mafia has to offer... "

Here he converses with Dr Reiner Fuellmich (currently serving time in prison in Germany, so we must assume that this was recorded a while ago).

To avoid upsetting the YouTube, some audio passages are silenced.

(70 minutes)

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2025-04-30

Well, it may not be that simple, but maybe it is associated with the management of power fluctuations in a grid which has little to no inertial generators.

Once the initial fluctuation wasn't sufficiently corrected, the grid turned itself off to protect itself from further damage. It's not a simple as that because there probably wasn't a single switch - different parts of the grid would turn off "independently" but trigger adjacent parts to do likewise, resulting in a cascade effect.

This for now seems to be what is being suggested rather than being the result of a formal investigation.

ZeroHedge reports.

2025-04-30

The intrepid Sarah Westall dives into the deep Woo with Woomaster Clif High.

Want to know more?

How intrepid are you? 

" The Woo is deep and it's ancient "

(54 minutes)

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2025-04-28

Top for what?

Top for cost, top for inefficiency, top for tax-payer subsidies, top for grid transmission costs, top for ecological destruction, top for government propaganda...  need I go on?

"... a peer-reviewed analysis of full-system levelized costs of competing power sources shows wind power is seven times more expensive than natural gas power and solar power is 10 times more expensive... "

Now I realise that I am likely preaching to the converted (converted as in realisation of the truth, as opposed to realisation of the heat-pump, whilst recognising that the former need not exclude the latter).

But it seems that there are still many global-warmists out there who implicitly believe everything that gets extruded from the vast networks of UN-WEF-affiliated think-tanks, charitable (as in untaxed) institutions, NGOs, and pseudo-populist lobby groupings that seem to have sprung from nowhere to

2025-04-25

Mike Robinson and Patrck Henningsen review the influence of Britain on Zelensky's Ukraine, and how Starmer and Von de Leyen may intend to find sufficient troops to match their unclear and probably unachievable military ambitions now that Donald Trump has spiked his NATO guns.

Is there any evidence that they understand how warfare has changed since the Maidan coup that set these ill-fated wheels of war in slow-burn motion? 

Or must we expand Margaret Thatcher's dictum along the lines of "the trouble with socialists is that they only stop fighting when they run out of other people's  troops"?

And is Zelensky really a British agent?

If, as is now becoming

2025-04-23

As a committed nationalist brought up in the United Kingdom with a dual Parliament (House of Commons, House of Lords) under the Monarchy, I have deplored the proliferation of devolved parliaments for the other nations that cohabit within the UK. It was always going to divide allegiances as a step towards a "Europe of the regions" for which almost nobody in the country was ever clamouring. There was no popular support, but plenty of politicians wanted it - after all, it was more "jobs for the boys".

So in principle I have never supported the idea that the UK needs yet another talking-shop where politicians can leverage "local grievances" - largely manufactured for the purpose. And if the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are anything to go by, I'm a long way from being convinced that they work in any way better than the Westminster versions.

But there is one possibility that might under the right circumstances gain my support...

(15

2025-04-23

Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs review the current World for DiEM25.

What will they make of the world at the end of the era?

What do they foresee and what do they think we should be doing in the new era?

Will it be "same as the old era"?!

Pin back your ears and make yourself comfortable for two of the world's leading non-conformists...

"All problems in the world go back to the British"

Ouch!

(1hr 40 mins)

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